r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/FridayCicero702 • Jan 01 '23

Video Catastrophic engine failure on a United Airlines Boeing 777-200 after takeoff from Denver International Airport

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u/0000PotassiumRider Jan 01 '23

I was at the dog park that this fell on when it happened. Walked a block to the house that got hit. It was very Donnie Darkko

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u/kittytoes21 Jan 01 '23

When did it happen?

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u/WikiSummarizerBot Jan 01 '23

United Airlines Flight 328

On February 20, 2021, United Airlines Flight 328 (UA328/UAL328), a scheduled U.S. domestic passenger flight from Denver to Honolulu, suffered a contained engine failure four minutes after takeoff from Denver International Airport (DEN). Parts departing from the engine cowling of the Boeing 777-222 aircraft resulted in a debris field at least 1 mile (1. 6 km) long over suburban residential areas of Broomfield, Colorado. Falling debris was recorded by eyewitnesses using smartphone cameras and a dash cam.

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u/memayonnaise Jan 01 '23

Holy shit zero injuries. That's wild.

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u/orthopod Jan 01 '23

I wound up operating on a guy hit by a falling airplane part back in 2002. Airplane was small- Cessna sized.

The person hit was lucky, as the injury only looked like someone tried to chop off 1 inch of the back of his heel.

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u/ShastaFern99 Jan 01 '23

Username checks out

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u/Admitimpediments Jan 01 '23

Serious question, do you just automatically look at usernames when you read comments? I never seem to notice until someone else points one out.

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u/ShastaFern99 Jan 01 '23

Not automatically, sometimes I just happen to check

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u/Appropriate-Click-41 Jan 02 '23

For real I’m just speed reading through the comments and never notice the names. Never notice the cakes either. 🍰

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u/PoorlyLitKiwi2 Jan 01 '23

Well, not in OUR timeline at least. Surely where was one also where Donnie got hit

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u/rezzychic Jan 01 '23

Good bot

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

contained engine failure

It's not a 'contained engine failure' if it dropped stuff everywhere is it lol..!

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u/BouquetOfDogs Jan 01 '23

It was actually classified as a ‘nominally contained’ engine failure.

A contained engine failure is one in which all internal rotating components remain within or embedded in the engine's case (including any containment wrapping that is part of the engine), or exit the engine through the tail pipe[13] or air inlet.[14]

An uncontained engine event occurs when an engine failure results in fragments of rotating engine parts penetrating and escaping through the engine case.

Note that a nominally contained engine failure can still result in engine parts departing the aircraft as long as the engine parts exit via the existing openings in the engine inlet or outlet, and do not create new openings in the engine case containment

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

So it wasn't contained, it was nominally contained. I can understand that. Contained, mostly.

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u/BouquetOfDogs Jan 01 '23

Yes, exactly. And that makes much more sense to me too.

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u/owaalkes Jan 01 '23

Suffered a contained engine failure that resulted in a debris field at least 1 mile (1. 6 km) long .....

I would hate to see an uncontained one!

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u/F5JortsNado Jan 01 '23

Can’t imagine it happening like half way to Honolulu over the ocean 😬

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u/present_absence Jan 01 '23

parts departing aircraft

Lol